The first video in a new I Love Lucy best moments series. (This time in color!) Fun fact: This video was posted on April 26th, the anniversary of Lucille Balls death. RIP
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What most folks today forget is that the original run of I Love Lucy ran for 6 seasons (1951 to 1957). The show had been on television for over 40 years by the time I started watching it in the early 90s. Millennial here by the way. Today, if you are just discovering this television gem, it is now over 70 years old. To put it into more perspective, in terms of time, I Love Lucy has survived so many changes to how we watch programming. It went through television having color, television having knobs, television having remote controls, television having rabbit ears, television being flat-screen, television going from analog to digital, cable television, streaming, and where we are gathered today, RU-vid. There is no doubt that this show will remain long after I'm gone.
I started watching in the early 90s as well. I still remember watching it whenever I was home sick from school and every day in the summer. There used to be nick at nite in the summer and Tuesday nights were Lucy nights! A few hours of back to back episodes. Today I have the entire series on DVD. Funny how a show that aired years before I was born is one of my most favorite shows ever.
Wow, it's like an entirely different viewing experience .... the colors are so vivid and realistic. This could be billions more in syndication/royalty monies!
If you're wondering why some of the fashion looks really garish (like the bizarre hot pink apron over a bright blue dress at 3:04), it's because these colors read differently in black and white :) So they were styled with how the clothes would look in black and white in mind
Not sure what folks are talking about. This type of colorizing isn't some AI that magically "knows" what color things were. It's a very human-driven art. Humans have to do research to find out what colors things were, or make educated guesses. It's like coloring in a coloring book. The digital technology is just a tool to implement those human decisions.
Some of the colors were also adjusted a bit for broadcast television. There is a color photograph of the entire set while in construction and the kitchen was painted in a mustard yellow. Not sure what the name of that color is. They kept changing colors as the show progressed. The living room walls and doors were painted in shades of gray. They did get the green hallway correct and the bedroom was blue. Too bad we can't post pics here.
My favorite Fred line was when Lucy and Ethyl decided they were going to make themselves up as glamorous. Lucy was in the room with Fred and Ricky when Ethyl knocked on the door. Fred jumped up and Lucy said, "don't get up Fred, I'll get it Fred said, "get it? I was gonna LOCK IT."
Originally Bea Benaderet was set to play Ethel's role, but something happened to change that- thank goodness! I liked BB, but she was no Ethel! If you remember, she played the elderly lady widow that Lucy was trying to fix up with the grocery store man. That was a hilarious episode!
I've watched I Love Lucy all my life from my teens all the way up to now as a middle aged guy, and I think this is the first time I've ever seen these in perfect color!! What a major difference. It makes you see the 1950's as everyone else did back then when they lived it. The outfits and costumes they all wore came to life! Thank you for this work; it's sensational. You could however tell when certain patterns like small checkered clothing like Lucy had on was a little difficult for the software, but it's only when it's far away. Up close it's perfect. Thanks again!!
I was born in late 1956. I Love Lucy was on in reruns my entire life. It was one of the best things about being home sick from school, lying in bed and watching Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel.
Black and white was done to perfection back then. I grew up on watching them in black and white, so that's what I'm use to. Still great though in either version.
I loved this show as a child, in fact it’s the main reason why even learned English!! And just today I found out that Lucy is a red head and not a blondie. thanks to this video. 💀
Im 35yrs old, been watching I Love Lucy since I was 9yrs old, with my sister, on Nick-at-Nite. I never get sick of it. Its really cool to see the colors. I never imagined their kitchen was a weird dark green color with yellow appliances 😂 NOTE: IT WAS TITLED THE BEST OF I LOVE LUCY, BUT IT WAS JUST CLIPS OF 2 DIFFERENT EPISODES(FIRST 3MINS WERE OF SAME EPISODE('JOB SWITCHING') AND THE REST WERE FROM 'POINEER WOMEN' WITH A FEW HOLLYWOOD CLIPS THROWN IN LOL
Haha yeah, I intend to eventually make a part two with more episodes but when I find funny moments I go through episodes and they end up getting bunched together like this.
I love this in color I wish they would make the complete series in color I'd buy them it's like watching new episodes even though I've seen them all thousands of times watching them in colors like watching them for the first time
Fun to see it in color, very well done too! The only thing that looks very unnatural is Lucy's hair. If you look at color photos, her hair color looked very different (a softer shade red). But still, well done:) must have takes ages to colorize all this!
This is really good colorization. Colors are vivid and realistic and no creeping black and white around the edges of everything which is plainly a poorly done colorization. I still prefer I Love Lucy in black and white, but the color when well done is fun and interesting to see.
Today is the anniversary of my parents' wedding and my mom LOVED I Love Lucy. They had 53 good years together and I don't mind watching I Love Lucy anytime but especially today. Thanks for making this video!
I've been watching this show since I was a kid in the 80s! I've always loved it!! I love seeing it in color , and always loved all 4 characters❤❤❤ especially little Ethel❤❤
The color is nice but there's something about the black and white which I will always like better. Probably because it gives it a classic appeal as well as timeless. It allows the viewer to kind of "go back in time" to when it was originally aired, experiencing it for the first time. The color almost makes it unreal.
@@Wingedlight-nn4hl And a big professional bakery oven. I get hungry every time I see that! Fresh baked bread is a heavenly treat. The smell it leaves in the house is unbelievable. I am drooling already.
I'm sorry, I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I personally prefer watching the series in classic BLACK & WHITE. It brought out that priceless nostalgia of this legendary iconic program in my opinion...🤔
I feel the same way. There's something weird about it being colorized...mainly because of how saturated and unnatural it all looks. Still, it's interesting too see.
Honestly, it seems that more people prefer the original black and white versions over colorization and not just with this. Maybe people who prefer the originals are much more vocal about it, but it seems that colorization has gotten such intense backlash, whether it was when it was in it's infancy or the modern technology. It seems that many absolutely despise it. The thing to remember though is that the original black and white versions aren't going anywhere, and colorization is merely an alternative rather than a replacement or a modern version. And anyone who doesn't like colorization certainly doesn't have to watch stuff that way. Personally, I'm a big fan of colorization. I was absolutely blown away by it with my first major exposure to it many years ago. Last year, I collected all of the colorized material of The Three Stooges. I already owned all the main shorts, but I definitely prefer the colorized versions of the 20 shorts that were colorized, and some of the additional colorized material is very enjoyable as well. Even though there will always be haters of colorization, I'm glad it still has its fans that can appreciate all the effort put into it and what it brings to entertainment that is famous for a reason.
Thanks I had never seen I Love Lucy in color B4. Best scene 👌 for me has always been the William Holden @ Brown Derby. 4:50 the way she smacks the dough and smile on her face "Happy Little Loaf" 😆
Part of me really wants to try to do bread like Lucy and put in the 13 cakes of yeast, just to see what it does. However the rational side of me is thinking about the mess it would be to clean up. My rational side wins.🙆🏼♀️🤣
Remember reading that they actually found a bakery to specially bake the bread, up until reading this I didn't even think it was a real loaf of bread. It was rye because it kept better, and after filming the episode they actually sliced it up and shared it with the audience
Checking out samples of these colorized Lucy episodes....looks like i'm sold. Gonna have to fork out $$ and order the DVD set!! i've seen every episode numerous times growing up, but I wanna see them again in beautiful color
I bought the complete dvd set which was great, there are (b/w) episodes that you can find there that aren’t on streaming services. The Complete Color Collection has all but one (The Paris episode) of the episodes they colorized.
I really like it colored because if feels more real!! It's really interesting bc my reality in Latina America is really different, and since it takes a long time to tv show to reach here lol, i don't feel like it's really old! Thank you for sharing!!
One thing that I learned about from the episode of pioneering was that loaf of bread was really bread. After the taping of the episode, the cast and crew shared it with the audience. They broke bread together. Really special. The show had a bakery make it just for the episode. This is still probably my most favorite show ever and it was on nearly 40 years before I was born. So cool. It will always bring me great laughs.
I think color helps this play to younger people who did not grow up with black and white. It gives it a new feel. The people who chose the color for the items on screen get it wrong a lot. For example, as far as I know kitchen appliances of the day only came in white (Stove and Refrigerator).
I Love Lucy 📺 TV show so much to 👀 watch while a little girl I enjoyed watching the re-runs of the show just as I do years later while an adult to watch time after time.↗ Love peace & respect to Lucy and all the other actors and actresses that starred on the show.😘
I always think about that too! Some of the other shows that originally filmed on the new color system were in much worse quality. This holds up so so well.
I was born in late 1956. I Love Lucy has been on in reruns my entire life. The best thing about staying home sick from school was lying in bed and watching the Ricardos and the Mertzes. Even as a little kid l could appreciate the the snide remarks and insults that they threw at each other.
This was wonderful, thank you!! However, I never knew that there was a step going into the kitchen!! I guess I really never paid attention! That's crazy!!
@@PinkZomb1e ..... Yeah I knew that there were different apartments that they lived in. I just never really paid any attention to the way they enter the kitchen, until now!...lol...
I miss this. Sadly, alot of these episodes you can't even find anywhere anymore. I have all the big subscriptions for tv add ons, even CBS & they have only a select few of each season 😭
If you want the episodes not included in the streaming packages, you can find them airing on tv occasionally or you can buy the full dvd set CBS made, it goes on sale for 25 dollars sometimes and it really is a great deal.
